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unaˈvoidable, a.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
1. Not avoidable; that cannot be avoided or escaped; inevitable.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 511 If..meere and vnauoidable violence is offered to a godlie man. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 241 Beeing an vnauoydable passage for the ships that come from the Indies. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 11 The necessary and unavoidable Consequences of this Opinion. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Mar 10 Mar., Surprise at her beauty and manner..is unavoidable at the first sight. 1782F. Burney Cecilia v. xiii, The change of habitation that now seemed unavoidable. 1826F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 406 Within, and without, the walls of his theatre, he has a host of unavoidable enemies. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay i, You may be sure the delay was unavoidable or I should not have kept you waiting.
2. Law. Not liable to be voided.
1628Coke On Litt. 2 b, But if the man of non sane memory recouer his memory, and agree vnto it, it is vnauoydable.
Hence unaˈvoidableness.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 115 The unavoidablenesse of those former inconveniences. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 103 The unavoidablenes of the Evils by these signs portended. a1688W. Clagett 17 Serm. (1699) 206 The unavoidableness of heresies in the church. 1894Current Hist. (Buffalo, N.Y.) IV. 900 Francis Joseph, convinced of the unavoidableness of the proposed reforms, supported his ministers steadfastly. |